In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Jason Mitchell (Mudbound)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Harrison Ford (Blade Runner 2049)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Ray Romano (The Big Sick)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Ben Mendelsohn (Darkest Hour)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory
(16.7%), so the last-place candidate (Bob Odenkirk (The Post)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) has enough votes to guarantee victory
(16.7%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.In the end, 100%
of all cast ballots counted toward a winner.
This compares to 94.7%
if only the first-round votes were used.
You should be able to see that the winners have a more equal mandate in the final round than in the first round.

Note that even the "highest first-round votes" method is more democratic than most methods used in US public elections: the "vote for 5" method, which allows the largest block of voters to dominate, and the district method, where choices are restricted to the one or two viable candidates within geographical boundaries drawn by the politicians in office.

Also, view the
Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.